Well its official, I finally finished college with a 3.501 GPA at Park University at the end of the summer semester. Time to update my resume :)! Boston University has admitted me into their Computer Information Systems program, I hope to complete it by fall 2015.
With all the lack of updates lately there does come a good reason! For the first time ever it looks like I made the Dean’s List! For those of you that want to see it for yourself go to http://park.edu/deanslist/Default.aspx under “Campus”, select Online Courses (Undergraduate), and you will see me there. I will be updating my blog here in the next few weeks with some tutorials and reviews on some items I have purchased such as a Mediasonic H8R2-SU3S2 ProRaid 8 Bay…
Normally I look around and find scripts to do things I need right away, sadly today, that was not the case! So, I looked at a few websites and was able to come up with this: $machines = Get-Content feedme.txt foreach($machinename in $machines) { get-wmiobject win32_networkadapterconfiguration -computer $machinename -filter “IPEnabled=’True'” | Select DNSHostname,MACAddress,IPAddress } Basically how it works is, you put your script and feedme.txt file in the same folder, the feedme.txt file has all of the machine names, then…
Generally I have a decent experience at most of the places I go to, however recently I had a need for extra pages to be put into my passport within 24 hours and there wasn’t too much choice here in Kuwait as far as appointments, the next appointment was Sunday, so I deiced to look around. So curiosity struck, which consulate could do it fastest in the region? Here is my review: Abu Dhabi – Easy to get an appointment…
A little over a year ago while I was working in Afghanistan, I purchased a 1 Terabyte Western Digital hard drive. It had performed very well until it was dropped, since it has been very slow and getting data off of it has been very tedious. In today’s two part post I am going to go over the options you generally have when something like this occurs. In my case I am lucky and the drive still spins and is…
Some of you remember that video on the game snake I made a while back, I am going to start trying to make more videos, today’s video is on installing Windows Server 2012.
Some of you may think having a livewallpaper is distracting, some of you may actually enjoy it! Recently I downloaded a copy of CrunchBang and put it on my *nix box. I noticed not all of the wallpapers listed were avaiable, however it is an easy fix! sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-gl-extra The above command will download a bunch of extra screensavers. Its about 11MB. The next step is getting xwinwrap, I got it from: http://tech.shantanugoel.com/projects/linux/shantz-xwinwrap – The source is available…
Sometimes we need to change a large number of expiration dates and doing it by hand can be quite a task, here I have two examples on how to do this. Both required Quest Active Roles Management Shell for Active Directory. Example 1 – If all the account have an attribute such as the description that is the same, it can be done this way, but it MUST be the same and match exactly: Get-QADUser -ou “ou=users,dc=site,dc=local” -includedproperties description,AccountExpires,SamAccountName -sAMAccountName…
This may help some of you; it looks for accounts within a certain OU and outputs their expiration date and email if their account expires in 7 days (no more, no less!). # Inspired by: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Email-Active-Directory-452a5640 # Modified for use by; Salomon Johns # Find users within a certain OU that have accounts expiring in 7 days (no more, no less) # Print out the results Get-QADUser -ou “ou=users,dc=test,dc=domain,dc=local” -includedproperties AccountExpires -sAMAccountName ‘*’ | ForEach-Object { $sevendays = (Get-Date).AddDays(7).ToString(‘yyyyMMdd’) $samaccountname…
Well, the test was actually harder than I thought, I still passed with a score in the 800’s. I will say that the book that I purchased did lack a little. The book I used as my primary study resource was MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-642): Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure. Another friend of mine took this exam a few weeks ago, using a combination of this book and Trainsignal, he mentioned that the combination was great. On…